Fixture for curtain-rollers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

C. H. WHEELER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

FIXTURE FOR CURTAIN-ROLLERS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 17,006, dated April 7, 1857.

Figure l is a front view. Fig. 2 a horizontal section upon the line A, A, of Fig. l. Fig. 3 a vertical section upon the line B, B of Fig. 1. Figs. 4L, 5, and 6 details to be referred to hereafter.

The object of my invention is to produce a fixture that can be applied to curtains when hung inside of the bead that confines the sash in place, and that shall operate without the use of springs.

The curtain rod is formed of two pieces of equal or nearly equal size, to one of which is secured a tongue, that fits into a corre` spending groove in the other; these pieces when separated receive the curtain between them and are then confined together by the caps or rings f and g which are slipped over their ends.

To get the rod with its curtain into place, within the channel in which the sash slides, and without removing the bead D I adopt the following device. At one end the rod is slipped into a metallic bracket C constructed in the ordinary manner; at the other end the bracket is formed of a flat plate E having ears It projecting from its face upon the two sides, a suiiicient space being left between these ears to permit the passage of the pivot m up between them from below. This pivot or gudgeon revolves in the dovetailed box L which is perforated with a hole, made entirely through it, for the reception of the pivot m. This box or block L, before passing the curtain rod up into its place, is slipped back onto the pivot, so as not to interfere with the bracket. The rod is then raised and the box is slipped back and caused to enter between the ears h where it is held firmly in place. To secure the curtain to its rod, the rings f and g are removed from 0H its ends, the two parts of the rod are then separated, the curtain is placed between them, and the rings are returned; the curtain is thus instantaneously secured to its rod, and firmly held in place, without the use of tacks o-r nails for the purpose.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is-J- y Perforating the block in which the curtain rod revolves, so that it may be slipped back upon the pivot, and securing it to the bracket by the dovetailed ears, in the manner, and for the purpose substantially herein set forth.

O. H. WHEELER- Witnesses:

SAM. COOPER, Trios. R. RoAoH. 

